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The Role: The Senior Pre-Sales Consultant leader is responsible for supporting and enabling the Sales team in: The broad responsibilities of this role include: Execute pre-sales end-to-end bid plans Creating the Engineering solutions as per customer ask through RFP/RFIs Collaborate with different practice teams to create curated solutions Work with the bid team and finance team to create compelling commercial solutions Work with delivery team to create various case studies and experiences Present the solutions to customers and various stakeholders Leverage the broader Engineering capabilities and contextualize them to BFSI sector Study various BFSI market trends and prepare WE POV Create Account plans and define ADR strategies Preference will be for candidates with Presales background in BFSI industries or strong understanding of technology segments like with an understanding of the trends and solutions relevant to both the Technology and the relevant domain of the business. Objective/Purpose: Pre-sales leader is responsible for supporting the WEE GBL Sales team in winning the market share by generating opportunities and creating or putting together a solution for all types and sizes of deals (small / medium /large), that addresses client requirements while ensuring s interests are met and differentiations are positioned. Thought Leadership: Bring BFSI Industry experience in building the right services and practice teams Study BFSI Industry trends and analyst reports and guide the team Study industry regulations and propose relevant solutions Create and update GTM strategy for the sector Enablement: New deal - customer consulting and engineering orientation Domain and Technology enablement for Sales, Pre-Sales, Delivery & practice teams Strategic program initiation, consulting & smooth sales to delivery transitions Build, Design & Deploy: Build, design and deploy market leading BFSI Engineering service offerings Suggest state of the art Platform and Architectures Publish point of views & white papers in industry forums Build POCs, Enablers, Accelerators, IPs RFP Management / Bid Management: Responds to RFP/RFIs and manages the entire bid process by preparing & deploying the bid plan Understanding and capture business and technical requirements to define an appropriate solution. Probes the customer and asks relevant questions to get the necessary clarifications on requirements Runs pursuit strategy along with pursuit team to establish WIN theme Lead bids/pursuit (proposal response) end-to-end by formulating and Working with the Sales, Delivery, Solution, Practices, Legal, Pricing and other partnering teams to create & deliver winning proposals Program Management of all aspects of pursuit from kick-off through Bid Submission Identifies the teams / experts to be reached out to for contributing to the bid Collaborates with multiple stakeholders for getting inputs as per plan Reviews progress as per the bid plan and takes corrective actions Integrates / assembles the response as per inputs received and ensures that response gets submitted as per timeline. Closely work with the Sales team to identify customer needs and propose relevant solution Vertical Growth Initiatives Program Manage the demand generation activities and campaigns through research and working closely with the BU DG Team, service lines and marketing team Thought leadership building with activities like frequent Point of View developments and White Papers Prospecting and Market Research – industry and company specific analysis Work together with the sales and the delivery team to shape proactive themes for pipeline generation Conducts secondary research, gather intelligence, build a context or shape POV around diverse areas like accounts, personas or industry trends Contract and Compliance Management: Coordinate with multiple internal teams and client representatives to create acceptable terms as part of NDA, SOW, and MSA, etc. Ensures legal, environment and other compliance as applicable in collaboration with the Legal, IMG, FMG and other support teams Commercial Architecting / Estimation: Create an integrated pricing/P&L template to drive integrated efforts/pricing across multiple service lines in the bid Works in collaboration with the BFMs to determine the deal margins and the commercials Coordinates with the different Service Lines and Delivery teams for the commercial estimates Customer Visit Management Standardizes processes for customer visits Plans the entire customer visit and coordinates with multiple stakeholders to make the customer visit a success Contributes to the design of the memorabilia and other content that will be used during the client visits Leads customer presentations and participates in other customer engagement activities Collects background information of the prospective client through secondary sources for qualifying a lead Supports the sales team while pursuing a qualified lead by gathering relevant information on technology platforms etc. Supports opportunity creation by supporting the Demand Generation team in campaigns through mails, webinars, workshops, cold calling etc. Creates repository of information that can be used by sales team for presenting to the customer / client Presents or leads client presentations / workshops involved in demand generation effort Coordinates with alliance partners, analysts and internal teams to generate leads and achieve a state of preparedness to respond to RFPs and also to build the brand. Knowledge Management: Focuses on activities like research to build further capability in the team Creates collaterals, account dockets etc. that can be reused by the team Creates standardized templates for replicating across RFPs Work on case studies with the help of Delivery Managers to be published internally and possibly to the external world Works closely with marketing team and service lines teams to build and maintain the vertical website Personal Development and Competence Building: Identifies priority developmental competencies and seeks coaching support Focuses on all round development that includes competency building in areas of Functional, Domain, Technology, Process and Behavioural skills Creates individual development plan on the IDP portal to achieve personal and career development objectives in agreement with manager
